Word: schoolmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real meaning of the grace-period decision depends on one key question: whether Finch's momentary retreat is a hint of weaker stands to come. Both Thurmond in his satisfaction and the Journal in its anguish have worked from the common assumption that it is. So have many Southern schoolmen, who now imagine that the desegregation plans they finally conjure up won't have to be too rigorous to meet Nixon administration standards...
Philosophers and theologians have always debated the morality of debt. Aristotle condemned the charging of interest as "most unnatural," the early Christians considered it sinful, and the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages equated it with usury-until the Reformation, and notably John Calvin, defended interest under certain conditions. The last of the Schoolmen really was Karl Marx, who preached that interest meant exploitation. Only lately have some of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe begun to move away from this paralyzing doctrine...
Federal spending on education will obviously keep growing, and the influence of Keppel's office, which is already being expanded, will be considerable. But to a surprising degree, the old fear of federal control has faded. Schoolmen have been working with federal money for years, and though they may object to some of the paper work, they have discovered that so far Washington has never tried to tell them what or how to teach. "I believe in local control," says New York's Commissioner Allen. "But local control also means that you allow a community...
...Sherwood Hilton. Schoolmen from all over the U.S., visiting Greeley this fall to learn and imitate, see two schools that are round, with wedge-shaped classrooms surrounding cores of service rooms; another that is a cluster of three hexagons with cable-hung, sprayed concrete roofs; and a fourth-Sherwood school-that consists of four adjoining circular structures all containing V-shaped classrooms, plus an equal-size domed play area with infrared heating for cold days. Sherwood school is thickly carpeted in a beige, all-wool "acoustical floor covering." Parents call it the Sherwood Hilton, but Grimes is quick to tell...
...Discovery." Zacharias' committee soon became a nonprofit corporation: Educational Services Inc. At its headquarters in Watertown, Mass., scholars and schoolmen joined to loose a blizzard of physics-teaching aids-53 films, 75 paperback books, such cheap props as ping-pong balls and drinking straws. E.S.I. has gone on not only to launch summer teacher-training institutes, but also to rewrite U.S. engineering courses and elementary-school science. Last week the Ford Foundation handed over $1,000,000 to help E.S.I, surge ahead on all fronts. Its most ambitious plan yet: revitalizing the teaching of humanities, notably history and social...